Parents and Teachers Working Together (Strategies for Teachers Series)

How can teachers build positive relationships with parents and work with them to support their children's learning? This book offers a wealth of manageable ways. It combines the voice of a master teacher with spotlights of a dozen other teachers in action in rural, urban, and suburban schools. It offers sample letters and forms throughout. Topics include:

• working with diverse family cultures;
• setting the stage for a positive relationship during the early weeks of school;
• keeping in touch all year long;
• talking with parents about child development;
• involving all parents, including those who can't make it to school;
• helping parents understand classroom practices;
• problem-solving with parents.

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• Science Notebooks, Second Edition: Writing About Inquiry
• The Morning Meeting Book
• The Power of Our Words: Teacher Language that Helps Children Learn
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• The Art of Classroom Inquiry: A Handbook for Teacher-Researchers
• Management in the Active Classroom
• Learning That Lasts, with DVD: Challenging, Engaging, and Empowering Students with Deeper Instruction
• The Daily 5: Fostering Literacy in the Elementary Grades
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